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Power BI is the most powerful data analysis and presentation tool ever built, which integrates data from all your sources, turns it into meaningful information, and presents as easy to comprehend infographic formats. Power BI brings your data to life, makes it easy to understand, and guides your team towards actionable information.
Empower team members to discover insights hidden in your data.
Reduce the added cost, complexity, and security risks of multiple solutions with an analytics platform that scales from individuals to the organization as a whole.
Find and share meaningful insights with hundreds of data visualizations, built-in AI capabilities, tight Excel integration, and prebuilt and custom data connectors.
Gain leading sensitivity classification and data loss prevention capabilities to help keep your data secure and compliant—even when it’s exported.
Power BI enables us consolidate data from varied sources, presenting it as a single data set, and enables us understand the story behind that data through data visualization and actionable analytics. This visualization of data and the analytics can be shared with others as reports and dashboards within Power BI environment, or within apps. Power BI is available as a service (SaaS), as a desktop application, as well as a mobile app. The data sources can be local on-prem, or on cloud. These can be our own data sources, or 3rd party data sources. The large number of data connectors available make extraction of data very simple.
Using Power BI is as simple as it can get: Get data - Create Relationships - Create Reports & Dashboards - Publish to share.
You can get started with exploring the power of Power BI almost instantaneously, and keep building your applications as your needs evolve. There's a lot you can do with the in-built out-of-the-box functionalities.
No matter where the data relevant to your business is - Excel sheets on your desktop, ERP/ CRM databases on-prem, point solution applications within your organization, data sources on cloud, or 3rd party data that's relevant to you - Power BI gives you the connectors and tools to pull in all the data that's relevant to you, and view it in a meaningful manner.
Ask for the data view you want, and Power BI will realign the data visualization to present to you what you need.
If your data sources are in cloud, Power BI presents to you data visualization that's real time. For the on-prem data, synching can be done periodically.
Reduce the added cost, complexity, and security risks of multiple solutions with an analytics platform that scales from individuals to the organization as a whole.
Find and share meaningful insights with hundreds of data visualizations, built-in AI capabilities, tight Excel integration, and prebuilt and custom data connectors.
Gain leading sensitivity classification and data loss prevention capabilities to help keep your data secure and compliant—even when it’s exported.
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Power BI is the most powerful data analysis and presentation tool ever built, which integrates data from all your sources, turns it into meaningful information, and presents as easy to comprehend infographic formats. Power BI brings your data to life, makes it easy to understand, and guides your team towards actionable information.
Power BI is available as a desktop application (Power BI Desktop), as mobile apps, or as an online service. The Power BI Online - which is available as SaaS is also known as Power BI Service.
Power BI Service users can either have free licenses, or a Pro license. If you are a Power BI Business User, you are probably using a free license that is managed by your Power BI tenant administrator. If your organization has a Power BI Premium subscription, the users with permission can store content in dedicated capacity. Other people, both inside and outside the organization, can view this content without the need to have a Power BI Pro license. Premium enables distribution of content by Pro users, which can be viewed by others, without having the need for a Pro license. In the Premium workspaces, users can be assigned the roles as - Viewer, Contributor, Member and Administrator.
What you can do in Power BI Service depends on 3 things - the type of license & subscription, content storage location, and roles & permission assigned. A Power BI Pro license user can publish content to other workspaces, share dashboards, subscribe to dashboards & reports, and share with users who have a Pro license. A Power BI (free) user can only use Power BI service to connect to data and create reports & dashboards in My Workspace. They can't share content with others or publish content to other workspaces. If however users are parts of an organization that has subscribed to Power BI Premium, the Pro license users can distribute content even to users with a free license, The Power BI (free) users within such an organization can consume content shared with them.
The Power BI desktop is an application that you install on your local desktop. This enables you to connect, transform, and visualize data. Power BI Desktop is typically used by Analysts.
Yes, Power BI mobile apps are available for all platforms - Android, iOS and Windows.
Depending on the platform you are using, you can go to the respective app store (Google | Apple | Windows) and download the Power BI app. You can also download the Power BI desktop.
Power BNI is supported on most of the common browsers. This includes Chrome and the Microsoft Edge.
If you want your business decisions to be driven by your business data, and if you want to learn from the history, there is nothing more powerful than Power BI to give you a view to your business history and enable you to predict.
Power BI is a Business Intelligence and Data Visualization tool. It enables you to connect to various data sources, and get insights to your business data - visually.
Business users use Power BI as a decision support system. Power BI gives you the power to learn from your business data, and have the power to take informed business decisions.
Power BI is typically used by business users. Any person in the organization, who needs to either analyze, or plan will find a need for Power BI.
The three components of Power BI are - Power BI Service, Power BI Desktop and Power BI mobile apps.
A Power BI Pro user has the ability to create reports and dashboards, which he can share with other Pro users.
Power BI Premium is an organizational subscription model. At the user level, the individual users may be Pro or free users.
Power BI Report Server is an on-premise report server that has a web portal where reports and KPIs can be displayed. Users can access these reports either on the portal, or through their mobile apps.
Power BI embed is a Microsoft Azure Service that enables developers and ISVs to quickly embed visual reports and dashboards into an application. This is a metered service.
Power BI Mobile are the apps that can be downloaded on different mobile devices from their respective app stores.
Yes, Power BI has components like the Power BI Desktop, which are available on-premise.
Yes, most certainly. Power BI is built to connect to vast sources of data. These of course include all Microsoft products, but also a large number of 3rd party products.
Yes, Power BI developers can customize Power BI to build applications for specific needs of an organization.
Yes, Power BI enables you to view, slice and dice your data in many ways. In can hence be a very powerful tool for a budgeting and forecasting exercise.
Power BI may be licensed through a Microsoft partner like Alletec. You have free license versions available, but Power BI Pro users must be bought. At an organization level you can license for Power BI Service. The Premium version brings to you all the capabilities.
Once you have installed Power BI Pro or the free version, there are many tutorials available online to help you take the first steps.
If you want to take data driven decision for your business then you must have Power BI to help you do that. Without the support of actual business data insights, your decisions would lack the needed foundation and strength.
Power BI on-prem will be as secure as your on-prem infrastructure. If you are using Power BI Service, then Microsoft Azure ensures absolutely top grade security mechanisms for your enterprise data.
If your data sources are in cloud, e.g. Azure, Power BI automatically keeps updating reports and dashboards as the data online changes. For on-prem data sources, however, the data synch needs to be periodically triggered.
While Power BI by itself is best in class tool, it's biggest strength comes from the associated Microsoft Power Platform stack that it is a part of. The various components of Power Platform - Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate & Power Virtual Agents - together enable you to achieve much more than any single product would.
Power Platform Enterprise deployment would usually require you to subscribe to a Premium subscription. You will have to analyze the types of users within the organization, identify the roles and permissions they need, and based on this identify the types of licenses they require. The Power BI deployment planning doesn't have to be perfect the first time. You can make any needed modifications, as you learn more.
Even though Power BI is a self service tool, where users can design their own reports and dashboards, it is always important to engage a professional organization for undertaking an Enterprise project. This enables you to maximize what you get from your investments. Some of your needs might require customization, and it's always advisable to engage a professional services company for this purpose.
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